What is Giftedness?

Deborah Ruf, PhD
4 min readSep 27, 2024

Do you ever wonder if you’d recognize it?

This new book will help readers more fully understand what giftedness is and isn’t.

I’m pleased to present a new book that will be published by 5LoG Press on October 24, 2024.

Front cover of new book.

To pre-order a digital version (kindle or e-book), follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHV6QT6F

How do we enable each gifted person to embark on a positive, authentic life trajectory that fosters their individual development?

Losing Our Minds: Too Many Gifted Children Left Behind explores how background experiences and opportunities during childhood shape the adult lives of the gifted children in 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options (2009) as they reach adulthood. Especially for the exceptionally and profoundly gifted children, the importance of a “good fit” in the home, community, and educational environment matters greatly and play a significant role in their futures.

The book offers insight, as well as a practical metric — the Five Levels of Gifted — allowing readers to compare people of equal promise and differing levels of high ability as they progress on their educational paths. The book describes how deeply post-secondary and career choices diverge related to the subjects’ quality of good fit throughout their childhood years.

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Deborah Ruf, PhD
Deborah Ruf, PhD

Written by Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com

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